on him and his heirs for ever. This proposal received the assent of the council on 9 May 1654. Fowke then asked them to take his 'sufferings' into consideration. Finally, it was enacted, 4 August 1654, that £5,000 be assigned him from the fines set by the Act of Grace for Scotland. During 1652–3 Fowke served the office of lord mayor. In January 1653 he was acting as a commissioner for the sale of the king's goods. Along with four other commissioners he was appointed, 10 March 1654, to consider 'how the business of the forests might be best improved for the benefit of the state,' and to draw up a report. The Restoration He was one of the committee chosen by the City of London to confer with Charles Fleetwood, 9 December 1659. Three weeks later he laid before the court of common council a report, which was printed, on the 'imminent and extraordinary danger of the City.' When the city corporation agreed to send their thanks to George Monck for his services, Fowke was one of the three commissioners appointed for that purpose, 19 January 1660. In March he appears as a commissioner for the City of London militia. When the Restoration seemed inevitable, Fowke issued an advertisement denying that he was 'one of those persons that did actually sit as judges upon the tryal,' to which he appended a certificate from Henry Scobell, clerk of the parliament, dated 28 March 1660. For a while he appears to have lived in retirement at his country seat at Clayberry, situated to the north-east of Barking, near Woodford Bridge, Essex. He was, however, elected M.P. for the city of London on 19 March 1661, when he headed the poll. He was chosen in the same year president of Christ's Hospital, to which and Bethlehem Hospital he proved a liberal benefactor. He died of apoplexy on 22 April 1662. Legacy He bequeathed to Christ's Hospital estates in Essex for the maintenance of eight boys, of whom two were to be of the parish of Barking and two of Woodford. Under this bequest Clayberry was sold by his trustees in 1693. Fowke's portrait, dated 1691, is at Christ's Hospital. Family By his wife Catherine, daughter of Richard Briggs of London, he had two sons, John and Bartholomew, and a daughter, Elizabeth. See also List of Lord Mayors of London List of Sheriffs